Al parecer, Zimmer decidio trabajar en Dune antes que en Tenet (la peli de Nolan), porque el libro de Herbert es uno de sus favoritos
Hans Zimmer explained why he chose to score DUNE instead of Christopher Nolan's next movie, “‘Dune’ is one of my favorite books from my teenage years and I love Denis Villeneuve, obviously…it’s nice working with, it almost feels like family. I never saw the original ‘Dune’ movie, so I’m coming at this in a fresh way, just from the book. I have to do it, and Chris [Nolan] understands I have to do it. He’s going to be just fine.”